Locomotive ash-pan.



Patehted Mar. 26;

INVENTOR 7 WITNESSES N J W ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cO..WASHINGTON, B. c.

JAMES F. DUNN, OF $AI1T LAKE CITY, UTAH.

LOGOMOT'IVE ASH-PAN. I

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

, Application filed August 1, 1911. Serial No. 641,716.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. DUNN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State .ofUtah, have invented, a new and Improved Locomotive Ash-Pan, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description. 1

My invention relates to ashpans, and more especially to those used onlocomotlves, and has for its object to provide one having a guide membersecured to the bottom of a hopper, the guide member hav1ng 1ncl1nedouter slide bearings and dependlng end members, a door for closing thehopper, having bearing members for engaging the sl1de hearings on theguide member, and an end member for engaging the upper dependlng endmember on the guide member, the lower depending end member on the guidemember serving to prevent the ashes from falling ofl' the door when thedoor is closed, and the upper depending end member on the guide memberserving to push the ashes off the door as the door is opened.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the followingspecification, in which the preferred form of my invention is described.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts in both views of thedrawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of the invention showingcertain features in section on the line 11 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is asectiona view on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that the ashpans 5 are ofthe hopper type, and that to them are secured collars 6 on guide members7. These guide mem bers 7 maybe used horizontally, but they arepreferably inclined, which better provides for drainage, and which alsotends to close the slide bearings 8 which are engaged by the bearingflanges 9 on the sides 9 of the doors 10, which are provided for closingthe bottom of the hoppers. The bottoms of these doors 10 are preferablycurved in cross section, and they have depending transverse andlongitudinal reinforcing angle members 11. By constructing the door 10in this way I find that it will stand severe usage.

Clearance grooves 12 are made in the sides of the door 10, to assist inits operation. As the door 10 is curved in cross section, and

as the slide bearings 8 on the guide member 7 are disposed outwardly,there is practically no danger of water accumulating in the pan fromreaching the bearings, which, in winter weather, would freeze up andbecome inoperative, as would be the case with inside bearings. The slidebearings in the outer side of the guide member also prevent the ashesand dirt from fouling the bearings.

The guide members 7 have depending end members 13 at their lower endsand depending end members 14 at their upper ends, the depending endmembers 13 serving to prevent the ashes from falling ofl the doors 10when the doors are closed, and the depending end members 14 serving topush the ashes off the doors 10 while the doors are being opened. Thedoors 10 have end members 15, which normally rest against the outer.sides of the end members 14. To these end members 15 there are securedflanges 16,-

with openings 17, by which the doors 10 may be readily opened or closed,either by hand or power.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. In a locomotive ash pan a hopper, oppositely disposed guide membersat the sides of the hopper each having two outwardly extending parallelflanges, one disposed over the other with the upper flanges extendingoutwardly beyond the lower flanges, at the sides of the device, a doorfor closing the hopper having faces disposed against the bottom of thelower flanges, and side members disposed at the outer sides of the lowerflanges, and covered by the upper flanges, and inwardly extendingbearing flanges on the side members disposed for traveling between theflanges on the guide members.

2. In a locomotive ash pan a hopper, oppositely disposed guide membersat the sides of the hopper each having two outwardly extending parallelflanges, one disposed over the other, with the upper flanges extend ingoutwardly beyond the lower flanges at the sides of the device, a doorfor the hopper having faces disposed against the bottom of the lowerflanges and side members disposed at the outer sides of the lowerflanges, and covered by the upper flanges, inwardly extending bearingflanges on the side members disposed for traveling between the flangeson the guide members, two members spaced apart and depending from thehopper, one of the depending members serving to prevent the ashes fromfalling of]? the door when the door is closed, and the other dependingmember serving to push the ashes Witnesses: off the door When the dooris opened. G. E. WILSON, In testimony whereof I have signed my R. F.BATLEY.

name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscrlblng Witnesses.

JAMES F. DUNN.

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